Progress

I hope this makes a difference:

"There is no compelling evidence that the New Jersey death penalty rationally serves a legitimate penological intent."
-- New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission

USA: The New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission – set up by the state legislature in 2006 to study all aspects of capital punishment in New Jersey – released its final report. Its report recommends abolition of the death penalty and its replacement with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. It further recommends that any cost savings resulting from abolition be used to assist the families of murder victims. Many thanks to the AIUSA activists in New Jersey for encouraging their representatives to pass this important legislation.